Written on Nov, 13, 2017
              by Thom
          
         
                              
                    
                    Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History King of Kings III http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-58-kings-kings-iii/ Carlin takes readers on a tour of some of the most popular subjects in history in this series including Alexander the Great, Thermopylae, Marathon, and Salamis. The difference, is that this tale is told…
 
                                           
          
     
 
    
         
         
                           Written on Nov, 13, 2017
              by Thom
          
         
                              
                    
                    Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History King of Kings II http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-57-kings-kings-ii/ There really wasn’t a moment in this entire marathon of text where I wasn’t deeply intrigued by what Carlin was talking about, and I think that in many ways that’s because I was so…
 
                                           
          
     
 
    
         
         
                           Written on Nov, 13, 2017
              by Thom
          
         
                              
                    
                    Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History King of Kings I http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-56-kings-kings/ Often relegated to the role of slavish cannon fodder for Sparta’s spears, the Achaemenid Persian empire had a glorious heritage. Under a single king they created the greatest empire the world had ever seen.…